The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority signed a deal in September to set up an environmental impact bond, the first of its kind in the
Every year, Montreal transforms more of its streets into public spaces where people can rub shoulders with their neighbours without worrying about car traffic. Block by block, experiment
A familiar sight in the French Alps, gondolas are beginning to emerge as a popular addition to the mass transit systems of cities across the
More and more Canadian cities are coming to a simple conclusion: they’ve got too much darn parking. As a recent City of Ottawa video quips: “It’s not the
Held up as a model for sustainable living, Vancouver has charted a different path from most other North American cities over the past five decades.
Voters in Los Angeles County in November overwhelmingly approved Measure M, a ballot initiative that increases the local sales tax to pay for an aggressive
A bill passed by the National Assembly of Quebec last October establishes minimum sales targets for electric, rechargeable and hybrid vehicles, also known as ZEVs
American cities still have a long way to go before they’re considered safe for people of all ages and abilities to bike. But many of
By 2030, the United States will demolish 82 billion square feet of existing building space to create new and modern structures. While some new buildings may
Oslo’s city government has issued an ambitious “climate budget” with the intent of halving its carbon emissions from 1990 levels by 2020, and becoming completely
Over the last 40 years, hundreds of millions of people in China have escaped poverty as this enormous nation urbanized and became a manufacturing powerhouse
The craziness of Vancouver’s real estate market, now the subject of frantic political attention, has revealed a rare kind of metric in dense urban environments.
Faced with dangerous levels of smog, cities across Europe are starting to implement harsh crackdowns on diesel cars. Paris voted in late 2015 to ban
Many residents of American cities can’t escape the high cost of parking, even if they don’t own cars. Thanks to policies like mandatory parking requirements
Surprising many in the architectural community, this year’s prestigious Pritzker Prize went to Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. Though the award – often regarded as the Nobel Prize
Two guys walk into a bar…and go on to create Southwest Airlines. According to this durable snippet of too-good-to-fact-check corporate lore, the company’s founders drew
This is the story of a river at a crossroads. Well, three rivers, actually: The Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint rivers form a giant, gushing wishbone
Barcelona is re-designing its streets; city planners released a new plan that takes city spaces back from cars, for the people. Re-orienting the city to
American census data released in March has refuted two persistent assumptions about changing U.S. lifestyles – that more Americans are moving into cities, and millennials
One of the largest river restoration projects in U.S. history is back on track following two agreements in April to take down four dams along
There is very little to love about Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway. The six-lane highway that runs 18 kilometres along the shore of Lake Ontario, feeding some
Cities routinely rake up tens of millions of dollars from their urban forests annually in ways that are not always obvious. Leafy canopies lower summer
This article was originally published on StreetsBlogUSA. Boris Johnson says that one of his goals as mayor of London was to make cycling “more popular and more normal.”
Ada Colau, the current mayor of Barcelona, rose to prominence as an anti-poverty and housing activist in the wake of the global financial crisis. Since
Green buildings are attractive to owners for a few reasons. They’re great for reducing one’s carbon footprint and improving public relations, but they also offer
Sources: University of California-Berkeley study, IBM Global Parking Survey, Transportation Research Board, National Household Travel Survey, Nationwide, Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, City of Chicago, Research
Officials in Washington, D.C. said last week they may have to shut down portions of the Metro subway system for months because its piecemeal approach to
Stuart Lombard had no obvious reason to leave his job as a venture capitalist in 2007. Times were good. As managing partner with J.L. Albright
Vancouver these days has become a city fixated by the curbside view of its gold-plated residential real estate. As the city obsesses over stratospheric house
